Summary
Damien Tavan is a software engineering leader with nearly two decades of experience focused on renewable energy and data-driven systems, currently heading software engineering at NASH Renewables in Barcelona. He blends hands-on technical delivery—designing REST APIs, ETL pipelines and cloud migrations—with strategic leadership across cross-functional teams to operationalize scientific models at scale. At Cervest he led the adoption of Databricks and fostered close engineering–science collaboration, raising data and code quality standards across the org. His background spans energy R&D, forecasting tools and sustainability consulting, giving him rare domain fluency that speeds product-market fit for clean-tech software. Damien is comfortable moving research code into production and mentoring teams through architecture and tooling changes, often privileging modular, testable systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer-manager who pairs rigorous engineering practices with a long-term commitment to sustainable technology.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc.) Renewable Energy Energy Efficiency, Master of Science (MSc.) Renewable Energy Energy Efficiency at Instituto Universitario de Investigación Mixto ENERGAIA - Universidad de Zaragoza
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Electronics Computer Science & Automation, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Electronics Computer Science & Automation at Grenoble INP Esisar
English, Spanish, French